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Based On Years Of Original Research And New Reporting, Two Acclaimed Authors Deliver The Riveting And Emotionally Wrenching Full Story Of The Worst Sea Disa...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

This critically acclaimed memoir, now in paperback, tells the story of the woman who piloted The Washington Post through the stormy times related to the Pe...

Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. Foreword / Richard D. Parsons And Jonelle Procope -- The Apollo: A Place Of Possibility / Lonnie G. Bunch Iii -- Growing Up ...

The well-known and very popular Catholic couple, Scott and Kimberly Hahn, have been constantly travelling and speaking all over North America for the last...

From the Bestselling Author of The Secret Life of Bees, an Inspiring Autobiographical Account of Personal Pain, Spiritual Awakening, and Divine Grace Bl...

The Fifties Is A Sweeping Social, Political, Economic, And Cultural History Of The Ten Years That David Halberstam Regards As Seminal In Determining What Ou...

Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. Whenever IEDs were dis...

remember Pearl Harbor Allows Children To Go Beyond History-book Narrative And Experience Through The American And Japanese Survivors Memories What It Was L...

in 1386, A Few Days After Christmas, A Huge Crowd Gathers At A Parisian Monastery To Witness What Will Become The Nation's Final "trial By Combat"—a Court...

For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took con...

Osprey's Campaign title for one of the most important naval battles in the history of World War II (1939-1945), Midway, which was fought barely six months a...

"Lose yourself: Swoon has wicked fun answering that age-old query: What do women want?"―Chicago Tribune Contrary to popular myth and dogma, the men who c...

In this provocative bestseller, Farley Mowat challenges the conventional notion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach northern Canada. Mowat of...

The Former Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Documents His Rise From A Southern Youth To Ivy League Professorships Prior To The 2007 Housing Bubble Burst, Det...

From The Bestselling Author Of Lawrence In Arabia, A Gripping History Of The Early Years Of The Cold War, The Cia's Covert Battles Against Communism, And Th...

And You Welcomed Me Presents A Collection Of Early Christian Texts Regarding Hospitality And Its Practices. The Range Of Excerpts Both In Time And Space Sho...

A Best Book of the YearUSA Today * Time Magazine * Washington Post * Miami Herald * Richmond Times Dispatch * Christian Science Monitor * Daily Beast * Min...

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into hel...

Combining richly detailed empirical research on transnational connections with bold and imaginative theoretical argument, this innovative study offers fres...

This book treats all of the more than 700 species of birds recorded from the region, illustrating more than 600 of them in forty-seven fine color plates and...

For Nearly 16 Years, Until He Retired In 1996, Captain Puckett Helped To Guide Ships Through The Historic Panama Canal As A Maritime Pilot On More Than 1,40...

A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, this blockbuster adventure takes listeners on a gripping journey into the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove...

Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody...

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the town of Rossburn and the Waywayseecappo...

The Adventurous, Insightful, And Often Chilling Story Of A Young Geographer's Road Trip Through The Underworld Of U.s. Military And Cia Black Ops Sites. Geo...

This text recounts the human story of western civilization. The second edition, it features greater thematic unity and a stronger chronological framework wh...

Incredible stories and the inspiration behind the most popular Christmas songs, including Jingle Bells, Mary, Did You Know?, The First Noel, O Holy Night, S...

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, ...

Pfaff Discusses Writers, Artists, Intellectual Soldiers, And Religious Revolutionaries (including : T.e. Lawrence -- Gabriele D'annunzio -- Ernst Jünger --...

In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s ...

An accessible history of conflict between Christian and Muslim in the Middle Ages, but with far greater scope than the usual crusade narratives. Starting wi...

The personal and candid account of General Patton's celebrated, relentless crusade across western Europe during World War II First published in 1947, War ...

Product Description Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerfu...

International Bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explore...

Prologue: Obsession -- Part One: Some Gallant Heart. A Blaze Of Light ; Shadows ; Bond For Our Blood ; The Abban ; The Enemy Is Upon Us -- Part Two: What Mi...

As the conflicts in the Middle East grow in intensity, we cannot help but wonder what lies ahead for the nation of Israel and whether any of it means we ar...

A History Of The Class System In America From The Colonial Era To The Present Illuminates The Crucial Legacy Of The Underprivileged White Demographic, Citin...

this Fresh, Blunt, And Highly Persuasive Account Of How The West Was Won—for Jesus (newsweek) Is Now Available In Paperback. Stark's Provocative Report Ch...

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Step...

"Three small children peep out, their eyes watching me from beneath tousled but clean hair. Their clothes seem to have been put on their bodies to cover the...

"Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book Review The Wealt...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...

"Absorbing and convincing ... a major contribution to Lincolniana."—David H. Donald, author of Lincoln This definitive biography of Mary Todd Lincoln be...

Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the ...

For fans of the Netflix series The Crown, a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Chu...

What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that ...

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...